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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources shed light on Apple's augmented reality team, which is working on several products including AR glasses and AR camera features for the iPhone — CEO Tim Cook is betting on augmented reality, a cousin of VR that he believes will keep his company on top and may even supplant the iPhone.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Adding to recent departures, Uber vice president of maps and business platform, Brian McClendon, plans to leave amicably on March 28 — The number of executive departures from Uber is growing. — Jeff Jones, Uber's president of ride sharing, has left the company after just six months, Uber said on Sunday.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
About six months after joining, Uber president Jeff Jones quits, says his “beliefs and approach to leadership” were inconsistent with what he saw at Uber — He is leaving after apparently deciding the current controversies are too much to handle
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung unveils its context-aware ‘Bixby’ AI assistant ahead of Galaxy S8 launch — We're barely a week away from the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and among the phone's unique hardware features, Samsung is also looking to introduce some new software tricks, spearheaded by the Bixby AI assistant.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
At least 318 Cisco switch products vulnerable to flaw that was found upon examination of WikiLeaks' Vault 7 files; no patch or workarounds currently available — Bug relies on telnet protocol used by hardware on internal networks. — Cisco Systems said that more than 300 models of switches …
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| Bloomberg: |
Vodafone's India unit and Idea Cellular to merge, creating the largest carrier in the country, valued at about $23B with nearly 400M customers — Enlarged company has valuation of about $23.2 billion — Idea shares fall after initially surging in Mumbai trading
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank has scrapped a planned $100M investment in Andy Rubin's Essential Products smartphone startup, which would have valued it at $1B — Masayoshi Son's decision to scrap deal with creator of Android software reflects unpredictable style — SoftBank Group Corp. scrapped … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
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| Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator will offer its first “vertical” track exclusively for AI startups and encourages startups building “robot factory” tech to apply — Y Combinator Partner Daniel Gross today announced that the accelerator-turned-venture-fund will offer its first “vertical” track exclusively for AI startups.
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| Tasnim Shamma / NPR: |
How AGCO, an agricultural equipment manufacturer, is using Google Glass on its factory floor to improve speed of quality checks, train new employees, and more — Audio will be available later today. — Remember Google Glass? — They're the headsets that look like regular glasses …
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| Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: |
By pricing AirPods at $159 and Watch Series 1 at $269, below similar rival products, Apple is going after the entire wearables market, not just the premium part — As Apple pushes deeper into luxury brand territory, the company is making its products more accessible through lower pricing.| Jeremy Kauffman / LBRY News: |
LBRY uses blockchain and p2p data network to host 20K college lectures Berkeley was forced to remove from YouTube to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act — Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel.
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| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
IBM launches IBM Blockchain service, based on Linux Foundation-backed Hyperledger's Fabric code, and details its two commercial deployments — Tech giant IBM is set to unveil what it's calling the first “commercial application” of Hyperledger's open-source Fabric codebase.
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